AX 2012 R3 Warehouse Management without License plate?

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Is it possible to use the new Advanced Warehouse Management features with out having to use the License Plate functionality?

I tried to do a receipt with an item to a Warehouse with the mobile Interface and it kept nagging about License plate having to be activated for the receipt location.

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André Arnaud de Cal... 299,327 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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RE: AX 2012 R3 Warehouse Management without License plate?

Hi Fredrik,

When you have a storage dimension group where you enable the warehouse management, the license plate is always mandatory activated. You can also notice that on this License plate the tickboxes Blank receipt allowed and Blank issue allowed are enabled and cannot be changed. So in fact it should be possible to leave it empty.

The setting to have this License plate mandatory or not is on the Location profiles. You can disable the tick box 'Use license plate tracking'. Then it should be possible to do a transaction without the license plate.

I have tested it using an outbound baydoor. The demo database contains a Location profile called 'Non LPCOntrolled Recv Location'.

So as a conclusion: yes it is possible to not specify the license plate. Also the mobile device uses this logic.

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RE: AX 2012 R3 Warehouse Management without License plate?

I think the demo data that Andre pointed out may actually be bad demo data.

With the new Advanced Warehouse Management in R3, your Default Receipt Location needs to be license plate controlled. One way to get around what you're trying to do is to auto-generate the license plate during the receive process by using the "Generate License Plate" checkbox on your Mobile Device Menu Item.

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André Arnaud de Cal... 299,327 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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RE: AX 2012 R3 Warehouse Management without License plate?

Hi Rob,

Thanks for your insights. I think you are more experienced with the WMS module. I think it is a common scenario that products are received and put into a staging area without any pallet/license plate. After a check you put them on a license plate and do the pick and put into the warehouse location.

Can you tell us if this is not possible, not supported or not recommended? Do you know why the demo data does contain this setting?

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RE: AX 2012 R3 Warehouse Management without License plate?

I can't speak to the demo data, but the new WMS module does not allow you to "stage" your inventory using Work without a license plate. When receiving the inventory you must assign a license plate which is then used throughout the Work. If the final Putaway location is non-LP controlled the license plate will be removed when the user puts the inventory in that final location.

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Fredrik Sætre 12,644 on at

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RE: AX 2012 R3 Warehouse Management without License plate?

But the solution will ask about this number all the time when picking up the goods afterwards. How are we get around that?

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RE: AX 2012 R3 Warehouse Management without License plate?

Hi Rob,

this topic is also quite interesting for me because our company is thinking about an upgrade next year from AX2009 to AX2012 R3.

In our current process goods arrive without a pallet number (= license plate). After identifying and posting the whole quantity as item arrival journal we are using a movement journal to transfer the quantity to pallet numbers.

On some items we don't have a pallet number on arrival, there is done a manual picking to a pallet later.

For my understanding we can't continue with that process and the new WMS module. Right?

thanks,

Wolfgang Hodetz

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RE: AX 2012 R3 Warehouse Management without License plate?

ok the workaround, but it means that I have inventory with LP populated.

When I will move those items, I have the request to specify the auto LP number created previously.

A customer that does not manage LP, b.i. with a label, cannot afford to use this flow --> cannot use R3 WMS.

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RE: AX 2012 R3 Warehouse Management without License plate?

There are ways to do this in the new module.

One way to accomplish this would be to use auto-generated LP numbers (an RF menu item config) but make you final Put location be to a non-LP location. This means that when the users executes the Work and puts the inventory away, the LP will disappear from the inventory. You can then do your movement as you do today (via full screen or RF) and move that inventory to a new LP controlled location and assign the final LP.

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RE: AX 2012 R3 Warehouse Management without License plate?

Hi andrè I tried creating a bulp nolcation not LP lamnaged; but in "put work" I get this error:

Location BULKNOLP01 failed because the final put location for sales order work must either be a packing station location profile or final shipping location type.

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RE: AX 2012 R3 Warehouse Management without License plate?

Rob -

I was able to use the Generate LP to do the purchase order receipt and am trying to do a Put Away to a non-LP location. I am still receiving a message indicating that I can't put a LP receipt in a non-LP location. I assuming that I am missing something simple but not sure what.

Thanks

Dan

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